HEKTORAMA

    January 6, 2017

     

    HEKTORAMA HERITAGE

    Rudolf VirchowEisenhower and Crohn’s diseaseBernardino RamaziniCannibalismHans ZinsserBosch’s Cure of FollyCastratiAbbott Handerson Baldwin IVDurer praying handsChopin’s HeartSamuel Tissot
    		Borodino Gustav Mahler
    		Lovesickness
    		Franklin D. RooseveltEgon Schiele
    		Munchausen syndromSweating diseaseSanta Maria della Scala Ambras SyndromeDr. GuillotineBoccaccioJoris van ZelleCopernicus
    		John WesleyAlbert SchweitzerFranz Anton MesmerGiacomo CasanovaLuigi GalvaniCiceroGaetano DonizettiEradicating EbolaFrancis Bacon Antoine LavoisierBenjamin RushOliver Wendell HolmesJohns Hopkins
    		Richard SelzerHorace Wells

     

     

    ENCORE: in case you missed it

    Bronzino and the wages of sinDistorting anatomySchola Medica Salernitana & medical philosophyThe death of Charles IIThe King’s-Evil and sensory experienceThe trouble with Hamlet’s body and soulAlcohol and the art of David Teniers Jr.On not remembering facesLetters from the asylumThe Monros: a medical dynastyVisualizing MozartShackleton’s angelThe pulsilogium and the diagnosis of love sicknessThe history of condoms in the militaryTobias Smollett: his life and experiences Bellevue Hospital at the dawn of the apocalypse Joseph Babinski of the Babinski Sign About face: from revulsion to compassion The Hogmouths of HabsburgDr. Pozzi at homeThe Caesar never meant to be emperor
    		Childbirth practices in “Doctor Zhivago”Syphilis among the British aristocracyArt, Cristobal Rojas, and tuberculosisMystery in clinical case reportsThe language of narrative medicineShilohBank of England medical officersAddiction morphinomaniaThe discovery of oxygenReflections on medicine and artTolstoy, the Death of Ivan  Ilyich The caesar who became emperor

     

    ART IN MEDICINE

    The Crucifixion of ChristA painting for services rendered?KleptomaniaMargaret of AustriaA fashionable physicianThe bitter potion Portrait of a physicianModel for an artistPortrait of a surgeonMadonna and Child

     

    HISTORY OF MEDICINE

    Ambroise Pare on the battlefieldHealthcare for the PopesThe Sun King and his ailmentsErasistratus by the bedsideLorenzo the MagnificentKing Henry VIII: more ailments than wivesThe death of George IIThe Emperor and his physiciansThe last illness of Edward VIMary Tudor (Bloody Mary)The King who bumped his head Cromwell

     

     

    PROMINENT SURGEONS

    James SymePercival PottRobert ListonThomas Dent MutterWilliam HalstedSir James PagetFabricius HildanusDominique Jean LarreyWilliam Cheselden Sir Astley CooperLord MoynihanChristiaan BarnardLord ListerGaspare TagliacozziEmil Theodor KocherAlbucasisHarvey CushingFerdinand Sauerbruch Percival Pott Theodor Billroth

     

     

    PHYSICIANS OF NOTE

    Caleb ParryHerman BoerhaveBenjamin RushNils von RosensteinJohn ChamberSir Theodore de MayerneJoseph BellHenrik SjogrenSir George Frederick StillCarl von RokitanskyPhilippe GaucherPierre BretonneauThomas LinacreThomas YoungThomas SydenhamSir William Duke-ElderSamuel WilksJohn WallCosgrave E. McDowellWilliam BabingtonLuigi GalvaniJean Corvisart

     

    GREAT NEUROLOGISTS

    A black and white photograph of Dr. Gordon Holmes.Portrait of Lord Walter Russell BrainPortrait of Sir Francis WalshePhoto of William John AdieSir Victor HorsleyWilder Penfield's image on a Canadian stampPhoto of Howard H. ToothPhoto of Derek Ernest Denny-Brown
    Jean-Martin CharcotJoseph BabinskiMoritz RombergCharles SymondsPierre MarieKinnier WilsonJames ParkinsonJules DejerineTheophile AlajouanineDuchenne de BoulogneWilliam Richard GowersGordon HolmesRussell BrainFrancis WalsheWilliam John AdieSir Victor HorsleyWilder PenfieldOliver SacksWilliam Alexander HammondJean CruveilhierHoward H. ToothDerek Denny-BrownMacdonald CritchleyJohn Hughlings Jackson

     

    FAMOUS SCIENTISTS

    Painting of William BeaumontPhoto go Enest Henry StarlingPhoto of Thomas Henry HuxleyGerty and Carl Cori at the Nobel Prize Award CeremonyDorothy HodgkinDame Kathleen Lonsdale (née Yardley)Tu Youyou, Nobel Laureate in medicine in Stockholm
    Paul EhrlichCharles DarwinWilliam BeaumontJohn TyndallAlfred Russel WallaceErnest StarlingThomas HuxleyVan LeeuwenhoekGiovanni BorelliJohannes PurkinjeCarl and Gerti CoriJohn DaltonDorothy HodgkinKathleen LonsdaleAlbrecht von HallerTu YouyouCarl Ludwig Ramon y Cajal Jean Marie Poiseuille Claude Bernard Antoine LavoisierAlbert EinsteinSantorio Santorio 

     

    INFECTIOUS DISEASES

    MeaslesScarlet FeverSmallpoxBartolenosisBrucellosisPolioCholeraKala AzarDengueSyphilisTyphoid ulcersEbolaLeprosyPlagueDiptheriaKuruMalariaYellow Fever

     

     

    ANATOMY

    Andreas VesaliusAntonio ScarpaGabriele FalloppioGiovanni Batista MoganiMarcello MalpighiJuan Valverde de AmuscoHieronymus FabriciusBartolomeo EustachioGalen of PergamonAntonio ValsalvaBerengario de CarpiVidus VidiusJohann Conrad BrunnerAdrianus SpigeliusHenry GrayCostanzo VarolioAntonio BenivieniGerard BlasiusJulius Caesar AranziMondino de’ LiuzziGiulio CasserioBernardino Genga

     

     

    WOMEN IN MEDICINE: Hektoen International

    Rosalyn YalowVirginia ApgarElisabeth BlackwellFrances Oldham KelseyCecily WilliamsAlice HamiltonMadge Thurlow MacklinIda Sophia ScudderMarie E. ZakrzewskaHazel Louise McGaffeyDorothy ReedHelen TaussigMarie CurieRita Levi MontalciniElisabeth Kubler Ross

     

     

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    UNION LEAGUE CLUB CHICAGO ART COLLECTION

    Gertrude Abercrombrie: art and pancreatic afflictionDeath by dysentery? Artist Frank Russell Wadsworth in MadridRobert Louis Stevenson and hereditary hemorrhagic telangiectasia

     

     

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    THE MEDICI RULERS OF FLORENCE 

    Under the rule of the Medici family, Florence became one of the wealthiest city-states in Europe and the locus of the rebirth in arts, literature, and science of the cultural European Renaissance of the fifteenth century.
    Cosimo the ElderLorenzo the MagnificentPiero de’ Medici (“The Gouty”)Cosimo I, Grand Duke of Tuscany​

     

     

    SCOTLAND

    Glasgow Royal InfirmaryEdinburgh Royal InfirmaryDuke of Edinburgh’s AwardCraiglockhart War HospitalThe MonrosSir Robert SibbaldRobert Liston James SymeJoseph BellJames Simpson Sir James Matheson Alexander Gordon John MooreRobert Knox Thomas LattaJames LindWilliam CullenThomas Keith

     

    UNITED STATES HOSPITALS

    Michael Reese HospitalBellevue HospitalsFreedmen’s Hospital Washington D.C. Johns Hopkins HospitalMaynard-Columbus Hospital, Nome, AlaskaProvident Hospital, ChicagoRush Medical College, ChicagoRoosevelt Hospital, New YorkOld Cook County HospitalWalter Reed Army Medical CenterHarborview Hospital, SeattleSan Francisco General HospitalMassachusetts General HospitalPennsylvania HospitalCincinnati Children’s HospitalPeter Bent Brigham HospitalBoston DispensaryWilliamsburg Hospital, VirginiaSt. Vincent Hospital IndianapolisAlcatraz HospitalEllis Island HospitalJoslin Diabetes CenterMontefiore Medical Center, NYThe Illinois Eye and Ear InfirmaryHillman Hospital, Birmingham, Alabama 

     

     

    HOSPITAL GRAND TOUR

    Exterior shot of L’Hôtel-Dieu de Beaune. Image linked to the article.
    Montreal NeurologicalMontreal Children’sDublin St. Patrick’sDublin MeathLeedsLondon St. Bartholomew’sLondon St. Mary’s Royal LondonParisBeauneCopenhagenMoscowBerlinAachenHeidelbergPaduaFerraraMaltaCape TownSowetoLambareneQatarBaghdadKarachiVelloreHong KongKoreaSydney HospitalSydney Royal Prince Alfred

     

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    ISLAMIC MEDICINE

    During the expansion of the Empire of Islam and its ensuing Golden Age, physicians from Spain to Samarkand advanced the medical sciences by reviving existing Greek medicine and adding their own innovations.1 We have selected here the most prominent physicians who contributed to the remarkable flowering of Islamic medicine and are referenced in our journal,

    • Mesua, Yalhya ibn Masawaih c.777-857
    • Joannitius, Hunayn ibu Ishaq el Ibadi 809-873
    • Rhazi, Abu Bakr Muhammad ibn Zakariya al-Razi 865-925
    • Al Kindi c.801-c.873
    • Haly Abbas Ali ibn al-‘Abbas al-Majusi, or Masoudi 982–994
    • Albucasis Abu Al-Qasim Khalaf Ibn Al-Abbas Al-Zahrawi 936-1013 AD
    • Al Hazen Hasan Ibn al-Haytham c.965-c.1040
    • Avicenna Ibn Sinna 980-1037
    • Averroes  or Ibn Rushd 1126-1198
    • Ibn al-Nafis 1210-1288
    • Maimonides or Moses bin Maimon 1135-1204
    •  Avenzoar Abumeron or Abu Merwan Abd-al-Malik ibn Zuhr 12th century